Smartphones are sometimes marketed these days as being capable of shooting “DSLR-quality photos. ” Samsung went a step further: it was just caught using an actual DSLR photo to fake its smartphone’s “portrait mode. petapixel.com »

Instagram influence is worth big money these days, and many users have turned to third-party services to gain fake followers and likes. If you’re one such user, here’s some bad news: Instagram is now wiping out the artificial numbers that you may have paid money to get. petapixel.com »

I got this image last week but I didn’t post it because I know with 100% certainty this is fake. But some sites posted exactly theses specs and readers asked my opinion on this. So here is my opinion: It is fake as you can see from the image showing the FF sensor inside the […]
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UPDATE: Trusted sources told us this screenshot showing the A7000 specs and that’s going around the web is FAKE. – From trusted sources we know a new High End APS-C camera and new lenses (plural!) will be announced soon. sonyalpharumors.com »

Saw an ad for a “Styled (Wedding) Shoots Conference.” For those of you unfamiliar with the styled shoots, it’s where models play fake brides who fake marry models playing fake grooms at a fake wedding filled with fake guests and then cut a wedding cake at a fake styled reception while photographers who have paid […] petapixel.com »

Photoshop 1. 0 was first released as the Soviet Union was collapsing, but long before the software made photo manipulation easy, Kremlin censors went to extraordinary lengths to touch up history. An undated image of Russian animal trainer Vladimir Durov. petapixel.com »

I just got this super long and 99,999% Fake rumor from an anonymous source. I usually don’t publishe these kind of rumors I am certain to be wrong. But “The Source” put so much effort to spread wrong info that I found it funny and interesting enough to post it on SAR. sonyalpharumors.com »

Yes, it’s possible. I did indeed capture what you see above in one shot. Although some of the Internet seem to disagree, it’s true. What you see above is the Milky Way, the moon, Mars, Saturn, an iridium flare, and lava from the Kilauea Volcano of Hawaii. I took this image during my visit to […] petapixel.com »

A Dutch television film crew was arrested last Thursday at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after attempting to take what is being called a 'fake bomb' through security. dpreview.com »

*UPDATE* I think we can file these images under the “fake” category without any doubt. Rumors. camera (via PetaPixel) has uncovered where the photos on the LCD screen of the camera came from. canonrumors.com »

*Update 2* These are confirmed to be fakes. *Update* We are working to verify the authenticity of the photos in this leak. The change in design philosophy may be a bit too extreme for Canon. We’ll let you know as soon as we know. canonrumors.com »

A famous and rare stainless steel “fake Leica” camera sculpture has popped up on eBay. The asking price: $99,995 with $350 economy shipping. We first reported on this sculpture back in 2011. petapixel.com »

A smaller version of the stainless steel "Fake Leica" sculpture made by Chinese artist Liao Yibai (and found in the Leica Store LA) has appeared on eBay with a buy it now price of $99,995 USD. dpreview.com »

I see the posts. You see them, too. A session gone wrong because a photographer didn’t know want to do. And they didn’t know what to do because they hadn’t yet acquired the skills necessary to do that thing they were hired to do. petapixel.com »

Attention, camera collectors and Leica fans, here's something that you probably don't have in your collection yet. There's an ebay listing for a "Fake Leica" so rare that it fetches an insane US $99,995. thephoblographer.com »

Image also posted on my Instagram account New Year brings us the first new fake rumors too :) An anonymous source sent us this picture of the A6 with the following message: “Sony A6 to replace A6500. sonyalpharumors.com »

Here’s a new 3-minute music video by Russian/Ukrainian group 5’Nizza. In it, the band finds themselves in a variety of situations, but as the action is frozen they keep on singing while the camera pans around them. petapixel.com »

Right now, a conflict photographer named Eduardo Martins is supposedly driving around in a van somewhere in the Australian outback. And you probably won’t see any new work from him anytime soon: he’s in hiding after pulling off one of the craziest cons in the history of photojournalism. Photos of Martins from his social media […] petapixel.com »

The Internet is filled with fake photographs, and some have even won contests run by the likes of Nikon. And here’s why: people are generally very bad at detecting when a photo has been faked. petapixel.com »

Just an update to yesterday: Other rumor sites keep NOT debunking this fake teaser. Here is the link to the creator of the teaser. It’s just a wishful thinking creation from a designer. So please stop taking this seriously when you read this on other blogs and forums ok? And remember I told you straight […]
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This image is having its short viral live on the web. It’s a fake teaser image for a compact interchangeable FF camera. As you can see from the image below this is a photoshopped A6500 with dials. sonyalpharumors.com »

Need to add some fake blood to your photo shoot? Instead of going the digital route, you can easily whip up some realistic fake blood using recipes developed for Hollywood movies. The 2-minute video above is a quick look at some of the fake blood recipes that were used over the past decades. One of […] petapixel.com »

These days there’s a lot of talk about “fake news” on the Internet, and Facebook recently announced the introduction of fact checkers. Is that a good thing? I feel ambivalent about it, and I’ll explain why. petapixel.com »

The New York Times just reported an incredible story of how a 23-year old recent college graduate created a fake news story about fraudulent Clinton votes in Ohio and netted $22,000 on a fake news website from ads. petapixel.com »

It’s not just memory cards that are widely counterfeited in the photo industry: there are plenty of fake cameras and lenses floating around as well. Now Canon wants you to know about a quick and easy way to see if your 50mm f/1. petapixel.com »

The folks at RocketJump Film School had a little bit of fun with food last month. Just before Thanksgiving, they gave us a peek at some of the weird tricks food stylists and food photographers use to make their meals look delicious (but taste gross). petapixel.com »

Professional looking, shallow depth of field portraits are now available to a lot more people. Earlier today, Apple released its first major iOS 10 update, and included in that update is their much-anticipated fake bokeh “depth effect” Portrait mode for iPhone 7 Plus. petapixel.com »

25-year-old French socialite Louise Delage has amassed some 44,000 followers and over 50,000 likes on Instagram in the last 2 months. An impressive feat by social media standards… except that she’s not a real person. petapixel.com »